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AI transcription tools promise to eliminate typing forever. The accuracy has genuinely improved. So why do professionals still reach for their keyboards when it matters? The answer involves hidden trade-offs most vendors won't mention.
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AI transcription tools promise to eliminate typing forever. The accuracy has genuinely improved. So why do professionals still reach for their keyboards when it matters? The answer involves hidden trade-offs most vendors won't mention.
Implicator PRO Briefing #004 / 16 Dec 2025
Sarah Chen types 847 emails per week. She knows this because her company's IT department told her, right before suggesting she try voice dictation to reduce her carpal tunnel symptoms. Three months later, she's tested seven different AI transcription tools. Her verdict: "They all promise magic. Most deliver a mess I have to clean up anyway."
A Fortune 500 engineer deleted 47,000 lines of code, replaced them with 212 lines of YAML. AI costs dropped 63%. The routing layer between enterprises and their AI models is quietly becoming the most strategic chokepoint in tech.
Your employees paste customer records and source code into AI tools you've never approved, dozens of times daily. Bans don't stop them—IBM found the habit adds $670,000 to breach costs. The companies winning aren't building higher walls.
Enterprises are spending billions on AI pilots, but MIT's research shows most deliver no return. It's not the technology failing. The gap between impressive demos and working systems comes down to data quality, technical debt, and organizational readiness.
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